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Joe Ely

Joe Ely in concert, 2006
Background information
Born (1947-02-09) February 9, 1947 (age 65)
Origin Lubbock, Texas, United States
Genres Americana, Texas Country, country rock, progressive country, outlaw country, alt.country, heartland rock
Occupations Singer-songwriter, guitarist
Instruments Vocals, Guitar
Years active 1970–present
Labels MCA, Hightone
Associated acts The Flatlanders, Los Super Seven
Website JoeEly.com

Joe Ely (born February 9, 1947, Amarillo, Texas, United States) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music touches on honky-tonk, Texas Country, Tex-Mex and rock and roll.

He has had a genre-crossing career, performing with Bruce Springsteen, Uncle Tupelo, Los Super Seven, The Chieftains and James McMurtry in addition to his early work with The Clash and more recent acoustic tours with Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, and Guy Clark.

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Biography [link]

Early life and career [link]

Ely spent his formative years from age 12 in Lubbock, Texas and attended Monterey High School.

In 1970, with fellow Lubbock musicians Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock, he formed The Flatlanders. According to Ely, "Jimmie [Gilmore] was like a well of country music. He knew everything about it. And Butch was from the folk world. I was kinda the rock & roll guy, and we almost had a triad. We hit it off and started playing a lot together. That opened up a whole new world I had never known existed."

In 1972, the band released their first and— until 2002's Now Again— only album, but have appeared together on each other's albums. Since the band's initial break-up just after their first album was cut, the three musicians have followed individual paths.

Solo career [link]

Ely's own first, self titled album, was released in 1977.

The following year, his band played London, where he met punk rock group The Clash. Impressed with each other's performances, the two bands would later tour together, including appearances in Ely's hometown of Lubbock, as well as Laredo and Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, across the border from El Paso, Texas. Ely sang backing vocals on the Clash single "Should I Stay or Should I Go?", and Joe Strummer performed as a guest with Ely's band.[citation needed] Another collaboration was with Dutch flamenco guitarist Teye, with whom he recorded Letter to Laredo (1995)[1] and Twistin' in the Wind (1998).[2]

Throughout his career, Ely has issued a steady stream of albums, most on the MCA label, and a live album roughly every ten years.

The Joe Ely Band song "Brainlock" was featured in the 1980 movie Roadie starring Meat Loaf, Alice Cooper, Don Cornelius and Kaki Hunter.

In the late 1990s Ely was asked to write songs for the soundtrack of Robert Redford's movie The Horse Whisperer, which led to re-forming The Flatlanders with Gilmore and Hancock. A new album from the trio followed in 2002, with a third in 2004.

In February 2007, Ely released Happy Songs From Rattlesnake Gulch on his own label, Rack 'Em Records. Ely said in an interview with Country Standard Time that he thought it would be easier to release the material on his own label instead of dealing with a regular record label and their release cycles. A book of Ely's writings, Bonfire of Roadmaps, was published in early 2007 by the University of Texas Press. In early 2008, Ely released a new live album featuring Joel Guzman on accordion recorded at the Cactus Cafe in Austin, Texas late 2006.

The Flatlanders released their newest album "Hills and Valleys" on March 31, 2009.

In 2011, Ely released the critically acclaimed album, "Satisfied At Last."

Discography [link]

Albums [link]

Year Album Chart Positions Label
US Country US US Heat
1977 Joe Ely MCA
1978 Honky Tonk Masquerade
1979 Down on the Drag
1980 Live Shots 159
1981 Musta Notta Gotta Lotta 135
1984 Hi-Res 204
1987 Lord of the Highway Hightone
1988 Dig All Night
Milkshakes and Malts Sunstorm
What Ever Happened to Maria
1990 Live at Liberty Lunch 57 MCA
1993 Love and Danger
1995 Chippy Hollywood
Letter to Laredo 68 MCA
1998 Live at Cambridge Strange Fruit
Twistin' in the Wind 55 MCA
2000 Live @ Antones 66 Antones
2003 Streets of Sin 51 Rounder
Ten in Texas Icehouse
2007 Happy Songs from Rattlesnake Gulch Rack 'Em Records
Silver City
2008 LIVE Cactus! (with Joel Guzmán)
2009 LIVE Chicago 1987!
2011 Satisfied At Last 46 18

Singles [link]

Year Single Peak chart
positions		 Album
US Country US MSR
1977 "All My Love" 89 — Joe Ely
1981 "Musta Notta Gotta Lotta" — 40 Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
1993 "Highways and Heartaches" — — Love and Danger
2011 "You Can Bet I'm Gone" — — Satisfied at Last
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Guest singles [link]

Year Single Artist Peak positions Album
US Country
1992 "Sweet Suzanne" Buzzin' Cousins 68 Falling from Grace soundtrack

Music videos [link]

Year Video Director
1993 "Highways and Heartaches" Deaton-Flanigen

See also [link]

Portal icon Austin portal

References [link]

  1. ^ McCall, Michael (1995-08-31). "Restless Spirit". Nashville Scene. https://www.nashvillescene.com/1995-08-31/stories/restless-spirit/. Retrieved 2010-01-25. 
  2. ^ Skanse, Richard (1998-05-18). "Texas Twister: Joe Ely goes to the movies and back to the flatlands". Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/joeely/articles/story/5922386/texas_twister. Retrieved 2010-01-25. 

External links [link]

Awards
Preceded by
Alejandro Escovedo		 AMA Lifetime Achievement Award for Performing
2007		 Succeeded by
Jason & the Scorchers



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Joe Ely (album)

Joe Ely is the 1977 debut album by Texas singer-songwriter, Joe Ely. The album includes several tracks written by Ely's bandmates from The Flatlanders.

Joe Ely and the follow-up album, Honky Tonk Masquerade, helped establish Ely as a solo artist. Although the reissued CD doesn't credit Ely's backing musicians, the original LP included a one-page insert containing lyrics and musician credits. The core of the backing band that Ely had assembled for his debut was the same Lubbock-based crack team that appeared with him the following year on Honky Tonk Masquerade and continued to follow him on the road until 1982.

Years later Ely would recall that the band had not initially made plans for a recording career:

Track listing

  • "I Had My Hopes Up High" (Joe Ely) - 3:32
  • "Mardi Gras Waltz" (Joe Ely) - 2:50
  • "She Never Spoke Spanish To Me" (Butch Hancock) - 3:34
  • "Gambler's Bride" (Joe Ely) - 2:35
  • "Suckin' A Big Bottle Of Gin" (Butch Hancock) - 3:15
  • "Tennessee's Not The State I'm In" (Butch Hancock) - 3:04
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    Live Forever (disambiguation)

    Live Forever may refer to:

  • Dudleya, a genus of succulent plants
  • Immortality, living for an infinite length of time
  • "Live Forever", a song by Oasis
  • "Live Forever", a song by Black Sabbath from the album 13
  • Live Forever (album), an album by The Screaming Jets
  • Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop, a 2003 documentary film
  • Houseleek or Liveforever, a genus (Sempervivum) of succulent plants
  • Hylotelephium telephium or Live-forever, a succulent perennial groundcover plant
  • "Live Forever", a song by Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors.
  • "Live Forever", 2007 Magnus Carlsson song
  • Live Forever – The Album, 2007 Magnus Carlsson album
  • Live Forever: The Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, September 23, 1980 a live album by Bob Marley
  • "Live Forever", a 2010 single by Lange featuring Emma Hewitt
  • Live Forever (Matthew West album), a 2015 album by Matthew West
  • "Live Forever", a song by Hollywood Undead from Day of the Dead
  • "Live Forever (The Band Perry song)"

    • See also

  • Aizoon (Greek: "live forever"), a plant species named by Max Koch
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    Live Forever

    "Live Forever" is a song by English rock band Oasis. Written by Noel Gallagher, the song was released as the third single from their debut album Definitely Maybe (1994) on 8 August 1994, just prior to that album's release.

    Gallagher wrote the song in 1991, before he joined Oasis. Inspired by The Rolling Stones' "Shine a Light", "Live Forever" features a basic song structure and lyrics with an optimistic outlook that contrasted with the attitude of the grunge bands popular at the time. The song was the first Oasis single to enter the top ten in the United Kingdom, and garnered critical acclaim.

    Background and recording

    Noel Gallagher began working on "Live Forever" in 1991, while working for a building company in his hometown of Manchester. After his foot was crushed by a pipe in an accident, he was given a less-strenuous job working in the storeroom, allowing him more time to write songs. One night, he was listening to The Rolling Stones' album Exile on Main St.; while playing one of his own chord progressions, Gallagher noted that it sounded good against one of the vocal melodies from the album: "It was the bit from "Shine a Light" that goes [sings], "May the good Lord shine a light on you"", Gallagher recalled. Gallagher incorporated the melody, changing the line to "Maybe I don't really want to know". For a period afterwards, that was the only part of the song Gallagher had completed.

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    Live Forever (Magnus Carlsson song)

    "Live Forever" is a song written by Thomas Thörnholm, Michael Clauss and Danne Attlerud, and performed by Magnus Carlssons at Melodifestivalen 2007. Participating in the semifinal in Örnsköldsvik on 17 February 2007, it ended up 5th, which meant it was knocked out.

    It also appeared on his 2007 album Live Forever – The Album.

    However the song, which on 5 March 2007 was released as a single, became a major hit in Sweden following Melodifestivalen. It entered Svensktoppen on 11 March 2007 and 5th position and charted at Svensktoppen for totally six weeks. It also charted at Trackslistan.

    During Melodifestivalen 2012, the song was part of the pause event "Tredje chansen".

    Single tracklisting

  • Live Forever (Original Version)
  • Siempre as tu lado (Spanish Version)
  • J'ai vivrai (French Version)
  • Live Forever (Soundfactory Radio Edit)
  • Live Forever (Soundfactory Eternal Club Mix)
  • Live Forevef (Soundfactory Damnation Club Mix)

    • Chart positions

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    Podcasts:

    Joe Ely

    ALBUMS

    Satisfied at Last

    Released 2011

    Live Cactus!

    Released 2008

    Happy Songs From Rattlesnake Gulch

    Released 2007

    20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Joe Ely

    Released 2004

    Streets of Sin

    Released 2003

    From Lubbock to Laredo: The Best Of

    Released 2002

    Joe Ely / Honky Tonk Masquerade

    Released 2000

    Live at Antones

    Released 2000

    Twistin' in the Wind

    Released 1998

    Time for Travelin': The Best of Joe Ely, Volume 2

    Released 1996

    Letter to Laredo

    Released 1995

    Love and Danger

    Released 1993

    Live at Liberty Lunch

    Released 1990

    Dig All Night

    Released 1988

    Lord of the Highway

    Released 1987

    Musta Notta Gotta Lotta

    Released 1981

    Down on the Drag

    Released 1979

    Honky Tonk Masquerade

    Released 1978

    Silver City

    Joe Ely

    No Bad Talk or Loud Talk

    Settle for Love

    Live Shots

    The Best of Joe Ely

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    Love and Danger

    by: Joe Ely

    Leaving California, she is on my mind
    I left her back in Travis county, cryin' to a clothesline
    A steel guitar on the radio is cuttin' slow and mean
    I brought home the bottle, she just wanted beans
    Highways and heartaches
    Go together like you and me
    Do you ever think about it
    When the night is sad and lonely
    I wonder if she's watchin' TV, cryin' with soap opera stars
    I wonder if she sees them in me and if we gone too far
    Look at all the lovers runnin' from their past
    Gassin' up just to get somewhere, goin' nowhere fast
    Highways and heartaches
    Go together like you and me
    Do you ever think about it
    When the night is sad and lonely?
    Do you ever think about me
    When the night is sad and lonely?
    Do you ever think about me
    When the night is sad and lonely?
    Runnin' away, don't stop the pain, it just delays the cryin'
    What's left unsaid is better swallowed than covered up with lyin'
    Though the song is over I still hear the steel guitar
    And though the past is gone for good, it still helps to swallow hard
    Highways and heartaches
    Go together like you and me
    Do you ever think about it
    When the night is sad and lonely?
    Do you ever think about it
    When the night is sad and lonely?
    Do you ever think about it
    When the night is sad and lonely?




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